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Real Estate Sales Agents
Rent, buy, or sell property for clients. Perform duties such as study property listings, interview prospective clients, accompany clients to property site, discuss conditions of sale, and draw up real estate contracts. Includes agents who represent buyer.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Present purchase offers to sellers for consideration.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 02Act as an intermediary in negotiations between buyers and sellers, generally representing one or the other.People already use AI for this at work
- 03Confer with escrow companies, lenders, home inspectors, and pest control operators to ensure that terms and conditions of purchase agreements are met before closing dates.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 04Advise clients on market conditions, prices, mortgages, legal requirements, and related matters.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 05Prepare documents such as representation contracts, purchase agreements, closing statements, deeds, and leases.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 06Compare a property with similar properties that have recently sold to determine its competitive market price.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 07Coordinate appointments to show homes to prospective buyers.People already use AI for this at work
- 08Generate lists of properties that are compatible with buyers' needs and financial resources.People already use AI for this at work
- 09Interview clients to determine what kinds of properties they are seeking.People already use AI for this at work
- 10Promote sales of properties through advertisements, open houses, and participation in multiple listing services.People already use AI for this at work
Tasks from O*NET® 31.0 (US Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0, changed by us), most important first. “Already use” comes from Anthropic’s data on real work chats with Claude; “could speed up” from task ratings made with GPT-4 in 2023.
Four studies, side by side
None is a forecast of job loss28%of this job’s work time goes to tasks that people already do with Claude at work, counting tasks where AI only helps as half (2026).Anthropic, 2026
44%of this job’s tasks an AI model could do in half the time, counting tasks that need extra tools as half (rated in 2023).Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, 2023
Above 84% of jobsin how often and how well AI helped with this job’s work in Microsoft Copilot chats (2024 data).Microsoft Research (Tomlinson et al.), 2025
Above 33% of jobsin how much of this job’s physical work robots have been shown to do, from factories to homes (2026).Anthropic, 2026
Your human edge
AI touches every main task of this job in some way. Your edge is judgment: knowing when AI’s work is right, and checking it before it counts.
AI tools for your work
Official connectors that let an AI assistant work inside the apps sales use. Each is made by the app’s own maker.